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Welcome to the journey[br]of freedom and a healthy life.

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Before we start,[br]let me ask you a question:

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if you take a scale from one to ten,

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like one being the lowest,[br]ten being the highest,

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how stressed are you today, or this week?

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And in your life in general?

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(Laughter)

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And how do you feel with this number?

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When I talk to people about this,[br]usually they say, like an eight or higher.

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And when I ask them what it's all about

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they usually say, well,[br]I feel like I'm not good enough.

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They tend to want to be faster and better[br]and even perfect, in every sense.

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And what we notice is,

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stress is one of the most risky[br]disease symptoms

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or causes for diseases.

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That means,

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we can have physical diseases[br]from that, heart attacks.

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We even age faster.

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Or we can have psychological diseases,

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and depression is one of this.

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The World Health Organization told us

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that 300 million people[br]are affected by depression.

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300 million people

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is the whole population[br]of the United States!

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This is enormous!

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When I started my first job,[br]I noticed that I was stressed,

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and when I talked to people[br]they just said, yeah well, me too.

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And it was like a status:[br]here's my job, my car and my stress level.

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And I wondered why is that,

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and at some point I realized for myself,

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my stress came from my current situation,[br]where I am right now,

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and where I wanted to be.

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Because I had so many dreams[br]and I didn't know how to follow them.

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And when I pictured myself,[br]in this job that I had taken,

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and I was where I just got promoted[br]and thought, the next three years?

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The next five years?

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Or the next ten years?

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It just didn't feel right to stay.

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And at the same time[br]they promised all the right things:

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a good salary, an excellent career,[br]security, all for the future,

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everything your parents want for you.

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And it's a really tough decision:

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do I go for the safety[br]or do I go for the 100%?

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Scientists at the Max Planck Institute[br]found out that we are empathetic beings.

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That's pretty cool.

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So when I'm stressed, and you watch me,[br]you have the same stress symptoms as me,

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and the same stress hormones.

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But the good news about it is,[br]that if we infect each other with stress,

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we can also infect each other[br]with happiness and freedom.

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And I wanted to get to the root cause[br]of this happiness and freedom,

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and I found a solution[br]in a really unexpected area.

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This is Mark.

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He has a chronical disease:[br]morbus crohn, it's a stomach disease.

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His blood inflammation rate[br]was 20 times higher than normal.

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I don't know if you know[br]what it feels like:

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he can't eat a lot of stuff anymore,[br]he feels weak, sometimes it even hurts.

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I mean, food that's supposed[br]to be good for your body and vitalize

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now destroys your intestines.

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In 2014, he participated in an experiment

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and he won [a] basic income,[br]that is 1000 euros for 12 months.

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And at the time he realized[br]he had won this money

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and there were no strings attached,[br]he didn't owe anyone anything,

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he could watch his body heal.

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And from week to week, within seven weeks

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his blood inflammation[br]dropped to a normal level.

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And it's not just about the money:[br]the money didn't heal him.

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But what he experienced[br]was dropping his existential fear

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and experiencing existential relaxation.

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"Mein Grundeinkommen",[br]or "My basic income" is this experiment:

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we collect from almost[br]half a million people money,

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and then as long -

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until we have 12,000 euros,

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and then we just give it out to someone.

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With that we have distributed[br]or raffled out money

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to over 100 people so far.

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And we learned a lot about these stories.

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This young man of nine years is Robin,[br]and he won a basic income as well.

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And I don't know[br]if you can imagine what happened,

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but this boy -

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became from one day to another[br]a major earner in his family,

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and it changed the whole dynamic:

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the family said,[br]they didn't fight this much,

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they spend more time,[br]they made a lot of trips,

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even though Robin just wanted[br]one book every month from this money.

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And what his mom said well,[br]what changed for us is not what we did:

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it's how we did it.

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We just spent our time more consciously.

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We see how basic income,[br]or this feeling of freedom,

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can ripple out to a lot more people,[br]for example our family.

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And Robin put it just that like, well,

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basic income just makes us[br]better feelings, that's what he said.

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The third story is Jesta.

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She is a self-employed woman with a kid.

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And the worst nightmare[br]she could experience is,

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if her kid got sick.

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Because if she doesn't work,[br]she doesn't earn money,

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and if the kid is sick[br]she can't work, and can't earn money.

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And she came back[br]to this existential fear,

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and she suffered from giving her child

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the impression that sick[br]is like doing something wrong.

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When she won a basic income,[br]she not only could stay at home,

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she also rippled it out[br]to a lot of other people,

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because she thought,[br]they should experience the same thing.

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And she decided to make

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a "Pay what you want"[br]concept with her clients,

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because she wanted everyone to realize[br]what it's worth what they're doing

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based on quality and sympathy,[br]and not on a price tag.

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And we're so known, and so -

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it's so common for us[br]to be worth what we earn,

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and to work really hard[br]to be worth something.

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And she wanted to destroy this cycle,[br]and make it to something bigger.

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What we learned from these stories[br]and like all the different other stories

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is this ripple from me

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to my close surrounding like a family,

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to even an ecosystem of trust.

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And we've been doing this[br]for the past three years.

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I said we have already raffled out[br]to over 100 people this basic income.

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And what is not the same in every story

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is that they say

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they feel a lot more self-esteem[br]when they go back to work.

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They feel a lot less stressed[br]in their overall life.

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And what we didn't experience[br]is that people would leave their jobs.

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Usually if you ask someone,[br]Would you continue working?

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Then the majority of people says,[br]yeah, well I would.

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But my neighbour,[br]he is really lazy, he wouldn't.

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And for us, in our experiment[br]only four people quit their jobs.

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Three because they didn't like it[br]and they wanted to change what they did,

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and one [wanted] to go and study.

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And we can learn from these stories.

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With winners of basic income

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we have detected three phases

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which I even went through[br]when I was thinking of quitting my job.

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And the first is,[br]acknowledge - dependency.

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When you first win this money,[br]they all say the same:

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I'm so pressured, I have[br]to do something for the crowd.

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I mean, they gave me this money for free,[br]I owe them something.

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When I thought of quitting my job,[br]my first thought was,

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I can't take unemployment benefits.

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I want to give something to the community,[br]and not take something out of it.

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But the truth is, we are dependent.

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And this will not change.

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This is a fact, and it's strengthening us.

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Which leads directly to the next one:[br]tolerate your freedom.

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We noticed that a lot of times[br]friends would tell the winners,

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Why don't you just take the money[br]and do what's good for you right now?

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What is it that you really,[br]really want to do?

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And when I first experienced this freedom[br]of taking unemployment benefits,

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I noticed I had a lot more ideas

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and I didn't consume as much

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as if I didn't have[br]to compensate for anything.

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And it's a common story[br]around all of our winners as well.

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The third phase[br]is self-responsible freedom.

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Our society tends to skip[br]the first two phases,

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and jump right into this one,

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And this is nonsense.

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Because because of this credit of trust[br]that you have been given,

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something bigger can grow.

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And we noticed that[br]I had more ideas, I did them,

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I was asking myself, so how can I make[br]this freedom than I experience

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and bring it into my work life,

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and bring it into[br]other people's work life?

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This is how "My basic income",[br]this experiment, has started:

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because of this phase.

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This is what made [me] just think,

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how can I grow and give other people[br]this freedom as well.

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Because we're so -

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we still think we can earn[br]and purchase freedom.

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But we can only live it.

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So if you take nothing but one thing,[br]then I would say it's,

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this basic income feeling,[br]this deep inner freedom,

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can start with you.

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And can start with you[br]asking yourself and your friends,

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what would you do[br]if your income was taken care of?

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And imagine what kind of society[br]we would live in,

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if we could go for the freedom

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and the things that are right[br]for us right now.

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And it can start with you.

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I wish us all the best of luck for that.

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(Applause)